Suarez Told FIFA Panel Bite Was Not Deliberate

WochitJun. 28, 2014. 07:47 AM EST

Luis Suarez told FIFA's disciplinary panel that he did not deliberately bite Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. The Uruguay striker's defense that he lost balance and fell on his opponent will now be presented to FIFA's appeal panel, after his national federation notified FIFA late Friday it would challenge the nine-match, four-month ban. Suarez wrote in Spanish in a letter dated June 25, "In no way it happened how you have described, as a bite or intent to bite."
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